17 Dec 2015
(Elementary School Mass)
When I was younger, I used to think that Christmas would never get here. And when Christmas Eve finally came around,
it took me forever to fall asleep,
and the clock was moving . . . so . . .
slowly. We all just wanted Christmas
to get here! We “couldn’t wait” for
Santa to come. But, of course, we had to wait.
About thirty years ago (your parents would probably remember
this), it was very popular to say: “Good things come to those who wait.” Now, at the time, people said it because
Heinz Ketchup used it in their commercials.
But we can think about that today . . . as we wait for Jesus to come.
In the gospel, we heard all those names of people who lived
before Jesus was born. And that was a lot of people. Hundreds and hundreds, thousands of years had
to go by before Jesus was finally born as a baby in Bethlehem. The people of God had to be very, very
patient. But they knew the Messiah would come.
And so, they always had hope
inside them. They knew that “good things come to those who wait.”
And that’s important to remember. Christmas is only eight days away. But, you know, even after Christmas is all done
this year, we’re still going to be
waiting for Jesus to come. We know
he’s coming. He’s always growing
stronger in our hearts; he’s always trying to shine his Light on us in a
brighter way. He’s coming; he’s always coming.
But we have to keep waiting to see him completely. But we wait with
hope and joy and peace because we know that “good things come to those who
wait.”
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